Mark Twain Quotes, Positive Quotes, Death Quotes

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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In literature imitations do not imitate.

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Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. We all can treat one another with dignity and respect, provide opportunities to grow toward our fullest lives and help one another discover and develop our unique gifts. We each deserve this and we all can extend it to others.

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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

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I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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